Appel: Learner Corpus Research Conference (LCR2011)

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:12:28 +0200
From: Sylviane Granger <sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be>
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X-url: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-lcr2011.html

                               LCR2011


To mark the 20th anniversary of its creation, the Centre for English
Corpus Linguistics of the University of Louvain is organizing a
conference entitled 20 years of learner corpus research: looking back,
moving ahead in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) on 15-17 September 2011.

Learner corpus research (LCR) is a young but vibrant new brand of
research which stands at a crossroads between corpus linguistics,
second language acquisition and foreign language teaching. Its origins
go back to the late 1980s when academics and publishers, concurrently
but independently, started collecting data from foreign/second
language learners with a view to advancing our understanding of the
mechanisms of second language acquisition and/or developing
pedagogical tools and methods that more accurately target the needs of
language learners. At first limited to English as a Foreign Language,
LCR has begun to spread to a wide range of languages and as a result,
the community group of learner corpus researchers is rapidly growing
and diversifying. Great advances have been made in learner corpus
design, collection and annotation, and the range of learner data has
expanded with the addition of spoken and multimedia learner
corpora. The field has also greatly benefited from growing links with
related disciplines in particular, second language acquisition,
teaching methodology, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics,
lexicography, language testing and natural language processing.

Although twenty years after its emergence, it is too early to render a
definitive assessment of the achievements in the field, it is time to
take stock of the advances that have been made in methodology, theory,
analysis and applications, and think up creative ways of moving the
field forward. LCR2011 is meant to bring together all the researchers
who collect, annotate, analyze computer learner corpora and/or use
them to inform SLA theory or develop learner-corpus-informed tools
(courseware, proficiency tests, automatic spell- and grammar-checkers,
etc.).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

We are pleased to announce that the following speakers have accepted
our invitation to give a keynote presentation at the conference:

Prof. Angela Chambers, University of Limerick, Ireland
Prof. Nick Ellis, University of Michigan, USA
Prof. Detmar Meurers, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Prof. Florence Myles, Newcastle University, Great Britain
Prof. Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham, Great Britain

CONFERENCE THEMES

We particularly welcome papers that address the relevance of learner
corpus research to:

Cognitive linguistics
Discourse studies
(e-)lexicography
Grammar and syntax
Language for academic/specific purposes
Language varieties
Lexicology and phraseology
Natural language processing
Second language acquisition
Second/foreign language teaching

We also encourage the submission of papers addressing the links
between learner corpus research and other research methodologies
(e.g. experimental methods) and introducing innovative annotation
techniques.

There will be four different categories of presentation:

- Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
- Short paper (10 minutes + 5 minutes for discussion)
- Software demonstration (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion)
- Poster

The posters are intended to present research still at a preliminary
stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback.

The conference aims to be a showcase for the latest developments in the field
and will feature both software demos and a book exhibition.

THEMATIC SESSIONS

The conference will also feature three thematic sessions, for which
submissions are invited.

1) Language for Specific Purposes Learner Corpora (convenor: Magali
Paquot)

The Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) Learner Corpora thematic
session aims to bring together researchers that are particularly
interested in the collection, annotation and analysis of LSP learner
corpora and their practical applications.

2) Learner Corpora and Cognitivism (convenor: Fanny Meunier)

The Learner Corpora and Cognitivism thematic session aims to bring
together researchers working with learner corpora (either as their
main source of data or in combination with other data types) to help
account for cognitive processes at play in second language
acquisition.

3) Learner Corpora and World Englishes (convenor: Gaetanelle Gilquin)

The aim of the Learner Corpora and World Englishes thematic session is
to bring the fields of SLA and World Englishes one step closer to each
other by examining the possible links and synergies between Learner
Englishes and indigenised varieties of English, as they emerge from
corpora.

More details about each of these thematic sessions can be found on the
conference website ( http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-lcr2011.html).

LANGUAGE OF THE CONFERENCE

English

ABSTRACTS

Your abstract should be between 500 and 700 words (+ list of
references) and must specify how the paper will contribute to the
theme of the conference. It should also provide a clear outline of the
aim of the paper including clearly articulated research question(s),
some details about research approach and methods and (preliminary)
results.

Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to lcr2011 at uclouvain.be, before 27
December 2010. Under subject, please write "lcr2011 abstract". Please
name the attachment as follows:
lcr2011_yourlastname_yourfirstname.doc.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific
committee. You will be notified of the outcome of the review process
by 14 February 2011.

For purposes of easy editing, please make use of the MS Word template
made available on the conference website for submitting your
abstract. The template consists of two pages. The first page asks you
to specify your affiliation details accompanied by a brief bio note
(75 words). The second page is reserved for your anonymous abstract
which will be sent to two reviewers.

KEY DATES

- Deadline for submission of abstracts: 27 December 2010
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: 14 February 2011
- Conference: 15-17 September 2011

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Sylvie De Cock
Gaetanelle Gilquin (chair)
Diane Goossens
Sylviane Granger (chair)
Damien Littre
Fanny Meunier (chair)
JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer
Magali Paquot
Natassia Schutz
Jennifer Thewissen

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Annelie Adel (Stockholm University)
Ulrike Altendorf (Leibniz-Universitat Hannover)
Inge Bartning (Stockholm University)
Tony Berber Sardinha (Sao Paulo Catholic University)
Yves Bestgen (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Marcus Callies (Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)
Tom Cobb (Université de Quebec a Montreal)
Ulla Connor (Indiana University-Purdue University)
Sabine De Knop (Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis)
Liesbeth Degand (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Pieter de Haan (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
John Flowerdew (City University of Hong Kong)
Lynne Flowerdew (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Thierry Fontenelle (Centre de traduction des organes de l Union europeenne)
Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Nicholas Groom (University of Birmingham)
Hilde Hasselgard (University of Oslo)
Marlyse Horst (Concordia University)
Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham)
Scott Jarvis (Ohio University)
Natalie Kubler (Universite Paris-Diderot)
Claudia Leacock (Butler Hill Group)
Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University)
Marie-Aude Lefer (Institut Libre Marie-Haps & Universite catholique de Louvain)
Anke Ludeling (Humboldt-Universitat Berlin)
Maria Jose Luzon (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Carla Marello (Universita di Torino)
Iliana Martinez (Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto)
Amaya Mendikoetxea (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Hilary Nesi (Coventry University)
Nadja Nesselhauf (Universitat Heidelberg)
Signe Oksefjell Ebeling (Oslo University)
Lourdes Ortega (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
John Osborne (Universite de Savoie)
Magali Paquot (Universite catholique de Louvain)
Mojca Pecman (Universite Paris Diderot - Paris 7)
Virginia Pulcini (Universita degli Studi di Torino)
Paul Rayson (UCREL, Lancaster University)
Ute Romer (University of Michigan)
Michael Rundell (Lexicography MasterClass Ltd)
Kari Tenfjord (University of Bergen)
Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham)
Yukio Tono (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Christopher Tribble (King s College London)
Agnès Tutin (Universite Stendhal Grenoble 3)
Bertus van Rooy (North-West University)
Nina Vyatkina (Kansas University)
Michael Zock (CNRS   Laboratoire d Informatique Fondamentale)

Conference website: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-cecl-lcr2011.html

Contact: lcr2011 at uclouvain.be

For sponsoring options, please contact Sylviane Granger
sylviane.granger at uclouvain.be.

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